Introduction
Dr Saif Maqbool is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department at FAST School of Management, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Chiniot-Faisalabad Campus. He did his PhD in Management & Actuarial Sciences from the University of Udine, Italy. His PhD dissertation is regarding the micro-foundations of Innovation. During his doctoral studies, he attended courses and workshops in several European universities and presented his research work at international conferences. He also spent a year at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia as visiting doctoral researcher and attended a summer school at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He won Doctor Europeaus funding for the three years of PhD and Young Researcher Mobility Program funding for four months from Region Fruili Venezia Guilia (Italy).
Prior to his PhD, he did a Master of Science in Business Administration with a particular focus on supply chain management from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy). He has secured a merit-based scholarship for the second year of his master’s program. He worked for three and half years as Business Development Executive in a leading logistics and supply chain management organization in Lahore. He is the gold medalist of BBA batch 2003-2007 of the Superior College, Lahore.
RESEARCH AREA
Strategic Management, Individual creativity, Innovative work behaviour, knowledge sharing/hiding, Non-technological innovations, Organizational behaviour, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Supply chain management.